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mdp.39015015361390	Harris, Christina Phelps	The Syrian desert; caravans, travel and exploration by Christina Phelps Grant ... With sixteen plates and four maps 	1938		.txt	text/plain	124984	8656	74	2. FOUR GREAT CITIES OF SYRIA AND MESOPOTAMIA: DAMASCUS, ALEPPO, BAGHDAD AND BASRA * In the eighteenth century the so-called "Great Desert Route" connected the great merchant caravans, and what sort of goods they transported; how the various routes became popular for the use unbroken water-way to the East, in 1869, minimized the usefulness of a long land route, for as long as travel across it was dependent upon medieval methods of transportation. The desert highways were not monopolized entirely by commercial caravans, nor were merchants the only travellers to make De Thevenot, who journeyed in Syria with two passports, one Arabic and one Turkish, went from west to east, travelling from Damascus to Aleppo, and thence by the northern route East India Company; and they used the Great Desert Route which "The Great Desert Caravan Route, Aleppo to "The Great Desert Caravan Route, Aleppo to	./cache/mdp.39015015361390.pdf	./txt/mdp.39015015361390.txt